Plans for Parliament
The grapevine has it that the late lamented and much missed Big Ben’s Bill has put off his plans for parliament. We hear, as of this autumn term, he will be taking up his deferred admission to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he will pursue a degree in public policy. This is a one year course, and Bill may then return to contest a by-election and go to Parliament.
Curtis & Leroy
A reader of TFT sent us the following vignette: ‘Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in a newspaper and bought a mule for $ 100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next morning, the farmer drove up and said, “sorry fellas, I have some bad news. The mule died last night”. Curtis & Leroy replied, “well, then just give us our money back”. The farmer said, “can’t do that. I went and spent it already”. They said, “ok then, just bring us the dead mule”. The farmer asked, “what in the world y’all gonna do with a dead mule?” Curtis & Leroy said, “we gonna raffle him off”. The farmer said, “you can’t raffle a dead mule!” Curtis & Leroy said, “we shore can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead”.
‘A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis & Leroy and asked, “what’d you guys ever do with the dead mule?” They replied, “shucks, we sold 500 tickets for two dollars apiece and made a profit of $ 998”. The farmer was flabbergasted, “My Lord! Didn’t anyone complain?” Curtis & Leroy said, “the fella who won got upset that he’d gotten a dead mule so we gave him his $ 2 back”. Rumour has it Curtis & Leroy are now consultants to The Man of Steel’s Dar-ling.’